re: Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie to star in Ocean's Eleven reboot...

When they make original, legit movies, people don’t go watch them.

I don’t remember Ex Machina, Whiplash, or Green Book breaking the bank at the box office… But that Top Gun reboot, yet another Jurassic Park sequel, and the 30th Marvel movie with a virtually identical plot? Yea, that’s where all the theater money is.

Hollywood is always going to follow the money, and it’s pretty obvious that money is not in originality these days.







For the record, here’s the list of the 10 highest grossing movies of 2021…
1 Spider-Man: No Way Home
2 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
3 Venom: Let There Be Carnage
4 Black Widow
5 F9: The Fast Saga
6 Eternals
7 No Time to Die
8 A Quiet Place Part II
9 Ghostbusters: Afterlife

The top 8 all made over 150 million, and ghostbusters got over 120. You have to go all the way down to number 10 before you get something that isn’t a sequel/reboot/comic universe film with Free Guy at just over 100. Nothing else reached 9 digits.

Now think about how many of those top 9 money makers are complete and utter dog shite. But still, each of them generated major revenue.


So answer me this… why bother with anything original when audiences have made it crystal clear that originality is not what they want? Until people stop watching shitty rehashes, shitty rehashes are all we are going to get.